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Author pitrou
Recipients jcon, nadeem.vawda, neologix, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, rich-noir
Date 2011-06-05.11:22:50
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> That's because of the _PyIO_ConvertSsize_t converter, which silently
> converts None to -1.
> There's probably a good reason for doing this in the _io module

I'm not sure about the original reason, but I find None as the default "omitted" value prettier than -1 myself, so I think it's a good thing :)
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2011-06-05 11:22:51pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, nadeem.vawda, neologix, jcon, rich-noir, petri.lehtinen
2011-06-05 11:22:51pitrousetmessageid: <1307272971.79.0.274030994244.issue12021@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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